tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31875632017-06-22T12:40:56.388+10:00The NightwatchmanBy <a href="http://glennpeters.tumblr.com/">Glenn Peters</a>. <br>Don't believe a word he says.Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.comBlogger713125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-32692853859289345922016-09-26T22:38:00.002+10:002016-09-26T22:38:59.052+10:00Brownlow 16: I'm Packing It In. Dangerfield Wins The Brownlow (I assume).
Patrick Dangerfield, best dressed Brownlow winner since Greame Teasdale
Gil doing the slow read for drama. Too late dude. Just when we settle in, there's another ad break filled with beer, sports vitamins and betting ads. Then a Friday Front Bar thing which otherwise would be amusing but it's after 10pm and we have shitloads more votes to count.
Round 15 read by Merv Hughes. At last we're Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-52112862929508984832016-09-26T21:53:00.001+10:002016-09-26T21:53:27.218+10:00Brownlow 16: I'm Starting To Question It All.
When we question the Brownlow, we question our existence.
Back to typing after Alex Lloyd singing his Amazing song to a montage of retirees.
Is this a wake?
Is anyone still awake?
Tonight is the dullest production I can remember. It's so drab and earnest. No colour. No movement. Barely any cringe. I'm even bored. I NEVER GET BORED ON BROWNLOW NIGHT. What has happened to me?
R I OK?
Am I?
Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-55184144854573556962016-09-26T21:19:00.001+10:002016-09-26T21:19:17.722+10:00Brownlow 16: Molly Was Just On And Contrary To Popular Thought, Dangerfield Hasn't Won Yet.
Round 8 read by a jockey who was banned once for betting against a rival horse. This gambling thing has taken hold of the Brownlow. I'm too annoyed to say anything more about the round.
Round 9 read by MOLLY. Phew. A good bloke to get me happy again. Pies beat Geelong that week. It was amazing. One of the year's only highlights. Get my first look at Cotchin's hair. It's lovely and fluffy. Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-49404031654547409842016-09-26T20:58:00.001+10:002016-09-26T20:58:15.010+10:00Brownlow 16: Tim Rogers Was Just On.
Round 4 and 5. It's a drab affair. No vibe. Nobody is drunk. You can cut the tedium with a knife. It's so quiet in there, you can almost hear the rain hitting the casino roof. We need some entertainment on stage stat. Alyssa Camplin, pies board member, Olympian reads the montage. She's good. ANZAC Day round. Dangerfield on 8. Parker on 10. According to the TV, Dangerfield is best on ground forGlenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-58062144164889169782016-09-26T20:36:00.001+10:002016-09-27T14:50:26.096+10:00Brownlow 16: Let the Votes Begin And Of Course, Greame Teasdale's SuitGeez, it just started. No arsing about*. Just straight into the votes. No montages. No bullshit. Just straight to the counting. Strange television.
Then after the first round of votes there's an interview with Greame Teasdale ABOUT THAT SUIT.
He seems a bit annoyed about 'that stinking brown suit'. He shouldn't be. It was pure genius. I didn't think I'd be talking about the suit this early. Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-82630845689048163042016-09-26T20:22:00.000+10:002016-09-27T14:52:23.380+10:00Brownlow 16: Two Sports Casters Walk Onto A Basketball CourtSo two channel 7 sports casters walk into a Peter Jackson suit shop to get some suits. It's gripping television. On the way home they play a game of basketball in their suits. Then they go skateboarding in their suits. Then they go to a work site in their suits. Then they go out to chop some wood in their suits. And then everyone who was subjected to their skit started to weep. All of Australia, Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-60573080238754568822016-09-26T19:58:00.000+10:002016-09-26T20:05:55.832+10:00Brownlow 15: Let's Do This Thing.
Brownlow live blog HQ.
I'm doing it again.
Typing along to the Brownlow like I always do.
Sorry.
I can't resist.
I was just doing the dishes and thought, "Why on earth do I do this? Is it for the fame? Is it because I like typing fast? Is it because of habit? Should I take this watch off when I do the dishes? What is the point of an Apple watch? Only 7,000 steps? etc"
The realGlenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-5026427184305434282015-09-28T23:04:00.001+10:002015-09-29T08:03:59.654+10:00Brownlow 15: Nat Fyfe Wins The Chocolates.Round 16,032. Priddis needs five votes. How will he go? I just had a look at twitter. Oh God. People are actually watching and tweeting about QandA. WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE. THE BROWNLOW IS ON. Back to the vote. Adelaide v West Coast.... No votes to Priddis.
Nat Fyfe has just won the 2015 Brownlow Medal.
He has a broken leg and a walking stick to walk onto stage.
This is him walking onto Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-15260892672764149072015-09-28T22:40:00.000+10:002015-09-28T22:40:00.081+10:00Brownlow 15: We're On The Home Stretch. Blue Lagoon Guy Catching the Guy With the Lips.Round 20. I'm getting tired but I type on. Dangerfield gets some votes. Dane Swan onto 17. Mitchell onto 23. West Coast game. Lots of pauses.... No votes to Priddis. Three rounds to go. Priddis can still win it.
Michael Barlow does some joke material.
Here's a screen shot.
Michael Barlow doing jokes at the Brownlow, TV and Footy's Night of Nights.
No idea why but Bruce seems to think it's Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-68083913760196042762015-09-28T22:29:00.000+10:002015-09-28T22:29:01.103+10:00Brownlow 15: Priddis Catching Up and the Obligatory Graham Teasdale Photo.
Obligatory Graham Teasdale photo
Jobe Watson reads R18 very deliberately. This round was the round the AFL world (most of them) showed their support for Adam Goodes. The people who were still booing are racists. Votes. None for Fyfe because his leg had fallen off by this round. Hannebery gets 3 and moves to 22! Priddis onto 23! They need to keep going.
R19 read by Brownlow 2015 winner (Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-57314694523321587762015-09-28T22:16:00.003+10:002015-09-28T22:16:53.549+10:00Brownlow 15: Another Woman Onstage Talking About Footy.R15. McLaughin' still going like the clappers. Any faster and he'll explode.
Fyfe 10 ahead of Blue Lagoon man and Sam Mitchell. I think Fyfe has won it. The others need to get three votes every round from now on. Impossible.
Now a Matt Priddis montage and an ad break.
R16. I think it's Sam Mitchell talking. He's good at reading. Goldstein on 13. Who put money on him today? Smart people. Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-44454947245351849672015-09-28T21:52:00.000+10:002015-09-28T21:52:00.945+10:00Brownlow 15: Fyfe Ahead By A...HOLD ON IS THAT GRAHAM TEASDALE?
Matt Priddis and his partner watch proceedings from the Perth studio.
R14. Read by Luke Hodge. He punches the cameraman in the face. Matt Priddis doing well but not quite as well as Fyfe. But Fyfe's leg falls off in a couple of rounds. I have a good feeling about Priddis.
And then Graham Teasdale wins the community award!
Nice threads.
R15. Fyfe well ahead.
Patrick Keane has tweeted Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-60567156671460166272015-09-28T21:36:00.002+10:002015-09-28T21:37:12.320+10:00Brownlow 15: Sam Mitchell is the Talk of the Town.
R10. I've missed a couple of rounds. I'm back on now. Fyfe on 20. Hannebery on 16. Cloke got votes. Yes, Travis Cloke got a best on ground. He has it in him. Oh well. Juddy out of the running because he did his knee this round. Bye Juddy, you annoying vote magnet.
Montage about Nat Fyfe. I get it. He's like a perfect person. Gorgeous blonde locks. Ball magnet. Plays with a broken leg.
The Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-4080477515063003422015-09-28T21:17:00.003+10:002015-09-29T15:44:04.650+10:00Brownlow 15: All Hail Daisy Pearce, Gun Footballer.
Daisy Pearce. Gun footballer.
Oh wow.
A woman on stage talking about football.
Daisy Pearce.
Gun footballer.
They haven't asked her who or what she's wearing.
She's just talking footy.
First ever female onstage Brownlow role.
Gives Eddy Betts Goal of the Year.
Awesome.
Piss off all this red carpet shit.
I want my girl, Martha to be a gun footballer like Daisy Pearce.
Go footy.Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-3608664490765382142015-09-28T21:07:00.003+10:002015-09-28T23:08:14.921+10:00Brownlow 15: LEAK. Sam Mitchell Has Already Won It*.
Sam Mitchell Brownlow 2015 Medalist (image altered)
You can buy a signed jumper by 2015 Brownlow Medalist Sam Mitchell here on the AFL online shit merchandise store.
Another round down and Fyfe gets more votes and we flick over to an ad about some doco channel 7 have made about footballers. It's all a bit drab and serious. It promises 'unprecedented access' with players talking to each other Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-64910235909669220762015-09-28T20:54:00.002+10:002015-09-28T20:54:24.800+10:00Brownlow 15: Trent Cotchin's Hair Is Gorgeous.R4. Read by Pendles. Silky delivery. Weaving through the pack of shit words he's been given to read like slow motion. It's gorgeous to listen to. Votes? I've never heard of Alipate Carlile? Sure he's a thing? Priddis has four votes. Lin Jong got a couple. About eight players equal on six votes. Fyfe isn't leading.
There's a kid interviewing people on the red carpet. He's quite good. They should Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-83129651025734552902015-09-28T20:37:00.003+10:002015-09-28T20:42:57.015+10:00Brownlow 15: I Feel Sorry For My WifeOne Brownlow tradition is my wife, Lucy complaining all night about TV and Sport's Night of Nights. Usually it's "I can't believe they televise this". I like that one but already in a group text she's nailed the Red Carpet with...
"I'm disgusted by it. This shit shouldn't happen in Turnbull's Australia."
Perfect.
And now it's...
"I'm going to do the dishes and clean the bathroom. I Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-2342018699221820802015-09-28T20:27:00.001+10:002015-09-28T20:27:40.145+10:00Brownlow 15: Bugger The Red Carpet. Here's The Big Dance."It's a Brownlow count like no other."
It's not. It will be exactly the same as it always is. A man reading votes, montages and blokes getting pissed on Crownies. It starts with James Blunt, rhymes with bunt, singing one of his shit songs.
Gillon McLaughin' calls quorum and away we go.
Fantastic footage of a body builder armor guard guy delivering the votes. He looks like Fabio.
VOTES AT LASTGlenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-58407415193271865752015-09-28T19:56:00.001+10:002015-09-28T20:19:31.033+10:00Brownlow 15: Red Carpet Stupidity.
Apparently the hottest accessory for tonight's ladies is a baby bump.
No shit.
A grown up person said that on air.
The big phrase tonight is 'fashion forward' or as people in fashion call it, FF. I have no idea what it means. Well, it could mean wearing lots of black make up, hot pants under a see through skirt, having a dress made of all the shapes Pythagoras hadn't thought of, or in the Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-37209159690687781042015-09-28T19:35:00.001+10:002015-09-28T19:39:38.318+10:00Brownlow 15: Here We Go Again.
Dane Swan's lovely partner Taylor Wilson (pic Quinn Rooney, The Age)
So here we are. Another year of Brownlows, TV and Sports' Night of Nights.
It's not all about the ladies. It's about the votes.
I will talk about the ladies too, I suppose.
I'll be here, typing all night.
Let's go.
Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-19056944212497715912015-07-30T12:56:00.002+10:002015-07-31T10:49:16.281+10:00An Unloved Piece About Unloved Food And Music.Last year I was asked to write something for a glossy magazine. I don't write for glossy magazines anymore. This is probably why.
The brief was to write about music and unloved food. Sure, that's an odd brief. I was quite rusty at writing longer stuff and sometimes what I wrote doesn't make sense.
The nice editor didn't like it because it lacked 'literary structure'.
It didn't get published. Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-54019738509174855062014-11-14T16:54:00.001+11:002014-11-14T17:06:12.539+11:00Shark Hump Whale Feeding Frenzy: One Of The Greatest Press Releases You'll Ever Read.
A shark yesterday.
This fantastic press release was sent out to media earlier in the week.
I don't know much about Ric D.T Wilson, the bloke who wrote it but I do know he has written a book which you can buy here on Abe Books and here at Amazon.
SHARK PATROL FLIGHT RESULTS FOR WEDNESDAY.
RIC D.T. WILSON, OPERATIONS CO-ORDINATOR FOR VOLUNTEER SHARK PATROL VIC.
Shark patrol flight Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-8782418854624282942014-09-22T22:56:00.002+10:002014-09-22T22:56:57.595+10:00Brownlow 14: And The Winner Is...That Guy From The Blue Lagoon.
Please Be Upstanding For The Winner Of The 2014 Brownlow Medal.
Last Round: Priddis has won it. Now we're going to see if he shares it. No. He gets more votes and wins outright. Beats Fyfe. At the TAB he paid $41. See. Betting on the Brownlow is a mug's game.
The AFL and the city councils of Australia breath a huge sigh of relief.
We have avoided a riot.
The text messages I'm receiving are Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-66988361849481724622014-09-22T22:39:00.002+10:002014-09-22T22:39:29.054+10:00Brownlow 14: This Brownlow Will Break Twitter.
Twitter right now.
Round 21: Nathan Jones the reader. Solid performance. Buddy kicks nine this game. He gets the three votes. He's on 20. Not enough. Selwood gets nowt. No votes to Priddis.
Round 22: Riewoldt reads again. He does something interesting with his hands. I don't know what it is. Maybe holding a small animal. Pendles on 16. Selwood can't win. See? Outright favourites never have a Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187563.post-23514884036522154562014-09-22T22:26:00.003+10:002014-09-22T23:00:36.500+10:00Brownlow 14: Matt Who?
Tweet of the night.
Round 18: Nick Reiwoldt is good at reading. Hymie still too fast. This proves him as a failure as an AFL boss. Dangerfield is on lots of votes.
Round 19: Gary Ablett reads this round. I'm scared this reading will earn him votes. Selwood moves to 18. I don't think he has enough. Priddis equal second 21. AWKWARD. DISQUALIFIED FYFE HAS HIT THE LEAD. I'm worried for the SEN Glenn Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12816394034828644190noreply@blogger.com0